Combination knife and scissors or shears sharpener.



No. 724,096. PATBNTED MAR. 31, 1903.

- M. L. HAWKS. COMBINATION KNIFE AND SGISSORS 0R SHBARS SHARPENER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26. 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES MOSES L. HAWKS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINATION KNIFEjAND SCISSORS OR'SHEARS SHARPENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 724,096, dated March 31, 1903.

Application filed [deptember 26, 1902. Serial No. 125,014. (No model.)

To a, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MOSES L. HAWKS, a citi Zen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combination Knife and Scissors or Shears Sharpeners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to knife and scissors sharpeners having a can-opener attachment; and one object of the invention is to provide a sharpener-frame having a double seat adapted to receive either a triangular or a rectangular sharpening steel or bar and also to provide the most simple and inexpensive means for securing the sharpener-bar to the frame, a further object being to provide a scissorsguide at the lower end of the frame having oppositely-inclined faces adapted to use in sharpening scissors or shears that are beveled on either side of the blades, and thus maintain a true bevel on the shears in sharpening, the construction of the upper part of the frame and the can-opener device shown being a modification of the can-opener patented to me August 12,1902, and numbered 706,823.

The construction of the improvement will be fully described hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, and its novel features will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Figure 1 is afront elevation of a combined can-opener and sharpener embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same, showing a modified form of sharpenerbar. line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. at is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the sharpener-bar shown in Figs. 2 and 4.

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the blank from whichthe can-opener blade is formed, and Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the blank after it is bent to form the opener-blade and before securing to the frame.

Corresponding parts in all the figures are denoted by the same reference characters.

The reference-letter A designates the frame of the imp1ement',comprising converging sides a, an extension A at one end, and integral prong a at its opposite end. The sides of Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the The extension A is formed with two transverse loop-bars a and a one on either side of the cross-bar a and, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4., each of said loop-bars is recessed to form a seat a, rectangular in cross-section, to receive the sharpener-bar.

The construction shown and described permits of the use of either a triangular or rectangular sharpener-bar, a bar triangular in cross-section being shown in Figs. 1 and 3 and a bar rectangular'in cross-section being shown in Figs. 2 and 4.

. The outer end E of the extension A is bifurcated and oppositely inclined to present beveled surfaces b on'opposite sides of the adjacent end of the sharpener-bar and serves as a guide in sharpening scissors or shears that are beveled on either side of the blade,

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and the diverging sides of the frame provide oppositely-inclined surfaces adjacent to the inner end of the sharpener-bar and are adapted to guide a knife-blade to the abradingsurface of the sharpening-steel.

The opener-blade D comprises a blank of the form shown in Fig. 5, having a cutting edge at one end and recessed at opposite sides to form notches d and d to guide the blade within the slot M. The cutting end of the blade D is bent down at a right angle to the body of the blade, and" the opposite end of said blade is bifurcated to form parallel arms G, which are bent downwardly and inward, as shown in Fig. 7, and then spread apart to engage the under surface of the web a and thus retain the blade in position within the slot a .7 The construction thus described provides simple and effective means for attaching the opener-blade and also a double seat for the sharpener-bar, so that either of the forms of bar shown may be used and firmly held in position by the key 0.

The utility and operation of the device will be readily understood, the inner end of the bar B or B serving as a knife-sharpener and its opposite end as a scissors-sharpener. The prong a at the extreme upper end of the sharpener-frame is ground to a sharp point and is serviceable as an ice-pick.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patcut-- 1. In a sharpener of the character described, a frame having a central opening with diverging sides, an extension having loop cross-bars and alined recessed seats having surfaces adapted to receive either a triangular or a rectangular sharpening steel or 

